Pravin Krishna is the Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University in the School of Advanced International Studies and Department of Economics; he is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His fields of research interest are international economics, political economy, economic development, and the political economy of India.

He has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and was more recently coeditor, along with Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, of The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges (MIT Press, 2016). Krishna holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in economics from Columbia University. He has previously held appointments at Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton University, and Stanford University, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.